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consisted of 12 clergymen and 15 laymen of the
Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection
with the Church of Scotland. Three or two of the
clergymen retired annually, and their places were
filled by the Synod or Supreme Court of the Church.
Four or three of the laymen retired annually, and
their places were filled from a list nominated by
the congregations of the Church.

A great change was made by the legislation of
1874, necessitated by the fact that a section of the
Canada Presbyterian Church with which the Kirk
proposed to unite was opposed on principle to
the Church becoming responsible for the maintenance
of any Faculty or Department of a University
save the Department of Theology. The Act obtained
in 1874 (38 Vict Cap. 76) therefore declared
that the Board of Trustees shall elect successors to
the members retiring annually, whether said members
be ministers or laymen.

In 1882, the Board
being threatened with litigation on the ground that the
legislation of 1874 was ultra vires of a Provincial Legislature,
applied to the Parliament of the Dominion
for an Act similar in terms to the Act passed in 1874
by the Legislature of Ontario: and though
the question of jurisdiction was debated,

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1899-1900

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